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Setting Slavery's Limits: Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801-1860: New Studies in Southern History

Autor Christopher H. Bouton
en Hardback – 19 noi 2019
Using slave trials from antebellum Virginia, Christopher H. Bouton offers the first in-depth examination of physical confrontations between slaves and whites. These extraordinary acts of violence brought the ordinary concerns of enslaved Virginians into focus. Enslaved men violently asserted their masculinity, sought to protect themselves and their loved ones from punishment, and carved out their own place within southern honor culture. Enslaved women resisted sexual exploitation and their mistresses. By attacking southern efforts to control their sexuality and labor, bondswomen sought better lives for themselves and undermined white supremacy. Physical confrontations revealed the anxieties that lay at the heart of white antebellum Virginians and threatened the very foundations of the slave regime itself. While physical confrontations could not overthrow the institution of slavery, they helped the enslaved set limits on their owners' exploitation. They also afforded the enslaved the space necessary to create lives as free from their owners' influence as possible. When masters and mistresses continually intruded into the lives of their slaves, they risked provoking a violent backlash. Setting Slavery's Limits explores how slaves of all ages and backgrounds resisted their oppressors and risked everything to fight back.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498579452
ISBN-10: 1498579450
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria New Studies in Southern History


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By Christopher H. Bouton

Cuprins

Introduction: Contextualizing Confrontations Chapter 1: Paternalism & Physical Confrontations Chapter 2: Masculinity & Physical Confrontations Chapter 3: Resistance to Sexual Exploitation Chapter 4: Enslaved Women¿s Violence and the Household Chapter 5: Protecting White Supremacy Epilogue: What Violence Meant to the Enslaved

Descriere

This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.